Martin Kohlstedt does not shirk from a challenge. You can tell by the look in his eyes when he makes a fleeting connection with his audience or when he returns to the refuge of his pianos and electronic keyboards. His focus is on a different way of conceiving music – and of communicating with it. He does not compose ‘works’ as such; rather he creates musical modules whose power lies in the way they can be combined and varied to produce conflicts and make points in ways that could not have been foreseen. The same is true of his recordings. When he made his companion albums Tag (Day) and Nacht (Night), released in 2012 and 2014, Kohlstedt had to bite the bullet and produce a ‘definitive’ version of each of his musical inspirations. As a result the listener can eavesdrop on his secret rendezvous with his piano.

• 1. Ant
• 2. Sen
• 3. Olv
• 4. Har
• 5. Fli
• 6. Auh
• 7. Ent
• 8. Bru
• 9. Omb